An
International Conference on "Multivariate Statistical Methods in the
21st Century: The Legacy of Prof. S.N. Roy" will be held at Eastern
Zonal Cultural Centre (Government of
India
), Kolkata,
India
, during
December 28-29, 2006
, in celebration of the birth centenary of Prof. S.N. Roy. Prof. Roy,
independently as well as in collaboration with such luminaries as Profs.
P.C. Mahalanobis and R.C. Bose, has made pioneering and seminal
contributions to many areas of statistics, including those in multivariate
analysis, e.g. analysis of contingency tables, distributions of eigen
values and eigen vectors, growth-curve analysis, p-statistics,
union-intersection tests, etc. This conference will also launch the series
of year-long international conferences being arranged to mark the Platinum
Jubilee of Indian Statistical Institute. A number of distinguished
statisticians, including Prof. C.R. Rao, National Professor of
India
, FRS & Member of the
National
Academy
of Sciences,
USA
, are expected to participate in this conference. Other researchers from
about 25 different countries have conveyed their plans for participation.
The registration fees have been kept low: $60 without accommodation and
$120 - $150 with modest accommodation (for the three nights, Dec. 27-29).
A limited number of contributed papers may be presented, the deadline for
receiving abstracts of which is
October 31, 2006
. The Conference will be preceded by a Workshop on Multivariate
Statistical Methods with Recently Emerging Applications during
December 23-27, 2006
, at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. This Workshop will consist of
lectures, by internationally acclaimed researchers, focusing on emerging
topics in multivariate methods and is aimed at junior faculty and research
scholars. Application for the Workshop, duly forwarded and including the
bio-data with a brief note on the motivation for attending it, should be
sent by
November 7, 2006
to: multstatconf@gmail.com. We invite you to join us in this S.N. Roy-fest
in his academic home town of
Kolkata
.